Looking for Historical Fiction, Nothing Stupid 找书，想看历史文不要那种智障的文章
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The Winds Rise in Southern Guizhou: I Become Prince Mu in the Southern Ming 风起黔南，我在南明当沐王爷
A chemistry graduate student unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian in Guizhou at the end of the Ming dynasty! He opens his eyes to find himself in the empire’s final days. The southwestern frontier, guarded by his family for generations, is beset by internal strife and external threats, and he knows that unless he takes action, he is doomed to see his country fall and his family perish, with his blood spilled in a brutal sacrifice. Within the realm, there are ch
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Three Kingdoms: A Duckweed in a Chaotic Age 三国：乱世浮萍
(Late Han and Three Kingdoms era + alternate history + no System + snatching opportunities + vying for supremacy + famous generals + renowned beauties): The score is low because it was just rated. The pacing is slow, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion arc is complete. In the second year of Guanghe, winter has come to the wilderness of Jizhou. Chen Mo, a displaced refugee, huddles among dead grass and corpses, starving and freezing, on the brink of death. Just as a bandit's blade is about to fall, d
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Dust Mountain 尘埃山
This story follows ordinary people struggling to survive through the long, chaotic ninety years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It portrays how a group of common folk make their way in life, far from the halls of power, with no special advantages or extraordinary encounters. Like specks of dust drifting through time, they endure the weight of the years, unnoticed and unheard.
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Transmigrate to the Three Kingdoms: I Became Lü Bu's Daughter 穿越三国：他成为吕布的女儿
[Man transmigrates into a woman] [Three Kingdoms power struggle] [Rags-to-riches comeback] [Restoring Lu Bu’s reputation] [Collecting beauties] [Political scheming] In the second year of Jian’an, the realm is in turmoil. A modern man’s soul returns to the body of Lu Lingqi, Lu Bu’s daughter, just as she is being forced into a political marriage with Yuan Shu. The road ahead is full of deadly dangers, and legendary heroes from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms take turns appearing. With a man’s
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Stranded on a Deserted Island with Only Diao Chan 我流落荒岛，身边只有貂蝉
[No System + Island + Survival + Three Kingdoms + Apocalypse + Hegemony] Starting with an island and Diao Chan at his side, he commands a vast world and has countless beauties in his arms. After transmigrating to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, he catches Cao Cao’s eye, but his ambitions are far greater. He divides the realm with Wei, Shu, and Wu, then sweeps across the six directions! Unifying China is not the end, but only the beginning...
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Transmigrating to the Song Dynasty: You Were Sent as an Envoy, Not to Marry Empress Dowager Xiao 穿宋，让你出使，没让你娶萧太后
“Minister Cao, how much must our Great Song pay in annual tribute?” “One million!” “What? One million! You insolent Cao Yong, I’ll have your head today!” “Your Majesty, I haven’t finished. The Liao are paying our Great Song one million a year!” “And on top of that, I’ve married Empress Dowager Xiao…”
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I Hold Power in Eastern Wu 我在东吴当权臣
My soul transmigrated to the end of the Han dynasty, where I became a lowly soldier in the Jiangdong camp, likely to end up in a mass grave at any moment. In my previous life, I read history and laughed at “Sun of Ten Thousand,” mocked as he was chased by eight hundred of Zhang Liao’s men. I thought him incompetent. In this life, with a cold blade pressed against my neck, I finally understood: in these chaotic times, human lives are as worthless as grass. Since I’ve come here, I can’t let his
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Water Margin: More Children, More Blessings, Winning Heroes and the Realm 水浒多子多福收好汉争霸
[More Children, More Blessings] [Recruiting Water Margin Heroes] [Conquest on the Battlefield] Emperor Huizong of Song: Make him a prince? And throw in a princess, too? Li Zhu: Boss, I’m a strategist. Why do you keep making me lead troops? Wen Huanzhang: Some pig just trampled my precious little cabbage? Emperor of Liao: I just took the throne, and Yanjing is already gone! Wanyan Zonghan: This kid’s ruthless! Wanyan Zongwang: He’s not playing by the rules. This is so unfair! Wanyan Wushu: Forget
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The Grand Canal: Emperor Yang of Sui's Song of Ice and Fire 大运河：隋炀帝冰与火之歌
Yang Guang, Prince of Jin under the Sui, was handsome, shrewd, and patient, biding his time in secret. While Emperor Wen, Yang Jian, lay gravely ill at Renshou Palace, his affair with Lady Xuanhua was exposed. He responded by murdering his father, forging an imperial edict, deposing and killing Crown Prince Yang Yong, and imprisoning his brothers until they died. He seized the throne in a bloody coup and renamed the era Daye. Once emperor, he broke the power of the great clans and established t
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Chang'an of This World 此间长安
A lifetime in a frail body, half a life among books. After an unexpected long sleep, he wakes in the Tang dynasty, during the Zhenguan era. Young Lin Chen has nothing to his name and a life as insignificant as a blade of grass. The moment he opens his eyes, he falls into a deadly predicament. In his previous life, he was confined to a sickbed, unable to live freely. In this life, even if he must walk through the mud, he will make every step shine. He will neither curry favor with the powerful no
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I Transmigrated to the Tyrannical Qin: Chen Sheng Led Me in Rebellion 穿越暴秦：陈胜带我起义
Are kings and nobles born to their station? The protagonist transmigrates into the brutal Qin dynasty and rises in rebellion alongside Chen Sheng, in an age ruled by harsh officials. Facing divisions between sworn brothers and the relentless turning wheels of history, he plots and schemes to save the brothers who stood together when their oath was first made. Where will he lead them from here...?
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The Chronicles of Emperor Guangwen of Han, Liu Xie 汉光文帝刘协本纪
[No transmigration] + [No golden finger] + [Pure political intrigue] + [A grand historical vision] In the third year of Chuping, Chang’an runs red with blood. Twelve-year-old Liu Xie has only just escaped Dong Zhuo’s control, but now he is trapped between the court and the warlords. Everyone thinks this young emperor is just another puppet for others to manipulate. But they are wrong. As the wheel of history turns, Liu Xie decides he will no longer be a piece to be moved at will. He will be th
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The Shadow War Between the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms 暗战之东晋与十六国
The title may not sound very much like a Tomato Novel, but the story is great. A descendant of the reborn Zhuge Liang marries a future female agent, a descendant of Sima Yi who has transmigrated into a woman with the same name? One of them goes undercover in Former Qin, while the other hunts spies in the Eastern Jin? And they have a female partner who transmigrated along with her body and disguises herself as a man to get things done? A villainess even brainwashes Xie Daoyun, the talented woman
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The Mad Little Daoist 癫狂小道长
A blind old Taoist told me I was a once-in-a-millennium heir to the art of formations. He carried me away from my mountain village when I was three. He said I was destined to defy fate and change my destiny, to reach the heavens and master all things. Then, on my very first day, he sent me to perform a yin wedding for a corpse. The person lying in the coffin was me. Only later did I learn that my master wasn’t blind: he’d put his own eyes out. He wasn’t my master, but my grandmaster’s discip
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Prince Zhu Xiongying Names Me Regent of the Great Ming 大明镇国皇兄，朱雄英让我当摄政
(The rating just came out, so it's a little low. It'll go up.) [Ming Dynasty + Technological Powerhouse + Comedy + One Heroine + Suona King] Flowers bloom and fade, flowers fill the sky; you're here one moment, gone the next! Song Renzou unexpectedly arrives in the Ming Dynasty. The child he picks up from the start turns out to be Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest legitimate grandson, Zhu Xiongying! Just then, Empress Ma passes away, and the funeral musicians of Yingtian are in a sorry state. Song Renzou a
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The Jiajing Era? The Perfect Time for an Industrial Revolution 嘉靖朝？不正是工业革命的好时机
[History + no System + no golden finger + imperial examinations and political intrigue + technological agriculture] Wang Chengwen, who possesses modern knowledge of materials science, transmigrates back to the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty, and just so happens to be the grandson of Wang Yangming, the great hope for the revival of the Wang School. Step by step, he will rise from an unknown commoner to the top scholar, then from an editor at the Hanlin Academy to assistant prefect of Xuzhou, and
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The Ming Dynasty’s Special Reconnaissance Troops: The Night Watchmen 明朝特种侦察兵夜不收
A battle of wits between elite scouts, a shadow war of espionage full of twists, and a poignant romance between two people caught in forces beyond their control: all this awaits in the legendary tale of the Ming Dynasty’s Night-Rejecting scouts! During the Jiajing era, unrest flares along the frontier as the Mongols and Jurchens watch hungrily from the shadows. An elite reconnaissance unit known as the Night-Rejectors becomes the sharpest hidden blade guarding the Ming border. Shen Yan, the son
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I Start with the Power of the Overlord in Great Ming, Yet I’m Made a Civil Official? 大明开局霸王之力却让我当文官？
Chen Dong transmigrates to the Yongle era. During Zhu Di’s first northern campaign, he starts out tending horses in the rear with Yu Qian and awakens the Immortal Civil Official System. Since he is on the battlefield, why is the System’s first reward the strength of a hegemon? What? The System is only active for three days? If he doesn’t become one of Zhu Di’s civil officials within three days, the System will shut down automatically, take back his rewards, and start a death countdown. Just then
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Restoring the Tang with Loyalty 归义复唐
(The numbers were too poor, so it was discontinued.) [No transmigration, no System, no superhuman strength.] The chaotic late Tang era is in turmoil: regional warlords carve up the realm, the Central Plains are in upheaval, and the Western Regions are cut off and isolated. In 907, Zhu Wen usurps the Tang, the Tang banners fall in Chang’an, and the chaos of the Five Dynasties engulfs the Central Plains. Yet in Shazhou on the western frontier, the Guiyi Army still raises its battered Han banner, h
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The Song Dynasty Textile Worker 大宋纺织工
This story takes place in an era very much like the historical Northern Song dynasty. Its physical world is also very similar to Earth as readers know it, composed of the elements on the periodic table. There is no spiritual energy and no ghosts. The only invisible thing is electricity. The protagonist’s golden finger is the ability to gain knowledge, though he needs some kind of medium to obtain it. This is a story with multiple female characters. It explores feelings, but not romance. There is
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The Swallow's Pecks, the Emperor's Grandson, and a Kingdom Beneath Her Skirts 燕啄皇孙裙下江山
A tale of the Han palace + satisfying palace intrigue + breathtaking beauties + a powerful heroine and political scheming + a fight back from the brink. Zhao Feiyan has been branded by history with the shameful accusation of “swallowing the emperor’s grandsons,” and reviled for all time. Yet no one knows that it was not cruelty in her nature, but a necessary step on her path to the pinnacle of power. An emperor’s favor is merely the sharpest blade in her hand; even the bonds between sisters can
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Eight Hundred Iron Cavalrymen to Conquer Ten Thousand Worlds 八百铁骑，镇万界
The sixteen-year-old Eighth Prince was dismissed as a good-for-nothing. Then, one day, sealed memories awakened within him. Faced with the turbulent currents swirling beneath the surface of the capital, he chose to leave and take up his post in his fief. With royal infighting, powerful clans pulling the strings, and the people living in misery... see how he carves out new territory in a world where dynastic rule and martial arts coexist.
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I Abdicated, So Why Is the Regent Princess Throwing Herself at Me? 我都禅让了，摄政长公主为何倒贴
[Historical Intrigue + Lighthearted Everyday Life + Misunderstandings About Mind Reading + Misunderstandings + Older Woman-Younger Man Romance] Li Che transmigrates into the body of the notorious puppet child emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty. The woman ruling from behind the curtain is Xiao Chuchu, a princess from another clan who commands a powerful army and is ruthless in battle. According to the original story, he’s a useless tyrant who cares only for wine and women and even wants to force hi
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A Tale of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties 戏说魏晋南北朝
Telling history with a touch of humor doesn't mean making things up! It's the bare minimum of respect for the past. The 300 years from the Western Jin to the Sui Dynasty were practically a large-scale, absurdly realistic Game of Thrones. What a remarkable era it was: less than ten years after Sima Yan unified the realm, the foolish emperor and the fierce, ugly empress Jia Nanfeng turned the land into a bloody battlefield during the War of the Eight Princes. Liu Yuan, Shi Le, and others swept int
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Slaughter, Despair, and Redemption on the Spanish Battlefield 西班牙战场的杀戮、无奈和救赎
The slaughter, helplessness, and redemption of the Spanish battlefield
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From the Ballet Company to Waterloo Bridge: Sex and Survival 从芭蕾舞团到滑铁卢桥：性与生存
From the Ballet Company to Waterloo Bridge: Sex and Survival
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Fang La, Holy Duke, Carves Out His Own Domain, While Song Jiang Prepares to March South 方腊圣公割据一方，宋江遵命即将南下
Saint Duke Fang La has carved out a domain of his own, while Song Jiang is about to head south under orders.
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Tales of the Han Dynasty: From Liu Bang to Liu Shan 汉朝那些事：从刘邦到刘禅
When talking about the Han Dynasty, it's impossible not to mention what an interesting and fascinating era it was. We people of later generations call ourselves “Han people,” and our ethnic group is known as the “Han Chinese.” These names are inseparable from the Han Dynasty. It can be said that the Han Dynasty not only established China's unified political order, but also shaped the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chinese people. This sense of identity took deep root in the hearts of the pe
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She Gets Away With Anything Because She's Beautiful 她就仗着美貌为所欲为
Arranged marriage, love after marriage, a slow-burn newlywed sweet romance, a pampered little darling, and a husband who is head over heels from start to finish Yun Chu was forced into an arranged marriage with Shen Yanchen, the head of the Shen family, who was five years older than her. Rumor had it that he was as refined as moonlight and a gentle breeze, aloof and noble, a rare beauty who never got close to women. But after they married, no matter how much she acted up, he indulged her ever
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